The Darwinian Revolution. Part 1

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Compact discs.
"Course no. 1527."
Part 1, Lecture 1: The meaning of evolution -- Lecture 2: The way it used to be -- Lecture 3: Theories of evolution in the 18th century -- Lecture 4: Fossils and catastrophism -- Lecture 5: Theories of evolution just before Darwin -- Lecture 6: Why evolution was rejected before Darwin -- Lecture 7: Darwin's conversion to evolution -- Lecture 8: What's in On the Origin of Species? -- Lecture 9: How Origin fared among scientists -- Lecture 10: The religious reaction to Darwinism -- Lecture 11: The social implications of evolution -- Lecture 12: Evolution and heredity.
Lecturer: Prof. Frederick Gregory, University of Florida.
Introduces the remarkable story of Darwin's ideas, how scientists and religious leaders reacted to them, and the sea of change in human thought that resulted. Perhaps more than any other idea in science, Darwin's theory of natural selection shows how a strikingly original concept can break the bounds of its discipline to influence society at large -- in religion, politics, philosophy, and other spheres--From publisher's website.

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